Japan's Police Were Rotten to the Core

Fujino's fists clenched, but after giving it some thought, he could not help but sigh.

Unlike China, where practically every criminal investigation unit above the county level had forensic doctors on standby.

There were not many official forensic doctors in Japan; one could even say they were something of a novelty.

Most forensic doctors in Japan were usually externally hired part-time consultants, or people within the Forensic Science Division who knew a bit about forensic medicine.

There was no need to say much about what kind of people got specially appointed. They were probably relatives of some higher-up in Shizuoka or something.

Otherwise, without any particularly dazzling achievements, those bastards in the police force would never agree to hire someone as a specially appointed consultant.

And in reality, Japan only had a little over a hundred official forensic doctors.

In other words, there were only a hundred-something forensic doctors for one or two hundred million people.

How the hell could that possibly be any good?

People like Inspector Megure usually had to determine the cause of death themselves, or have someone from the Forensic Science Division help out.

There was no need to explain what the people in the Forensic Science Division did.

They collected evidence, investigated crime scenes, and handled all sorts of work, yet they also had to be pulled away to examine corpses...

To the point that detectives commissioned to investigate cases had to determine the victim's exact cause of death as well.

Otherwise, why would detectives need medical knowledge?

Without medical knowledge, they truly could not even figure out how the victim had died.

So why was everything so often ruled a suicide?

They could not even analyze the detailed cause of death. What the hell was there to investigate?

They simply closed the case, figuring